Opinion: Private-equity holdings lobbied hard for their own financial disaster By: Al Lewis | One of the biggest bankruptcies in the world began with 2,400 breakfast tacos. Back in 2007, lobbyists were in Austin to make sure the Texas Legislature

By: Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSE&G) | With the energizing of a portion of the new Susquehanna-Roseland (S-R) power line, PSE&G is better equipped than ever to handle customers’ demand for safe, reliable electricity this summer. The additional line

By: JAMES OSBORNE | Energy Future Holdings, the result of the largest leveraged buyout in U.S. history, has finally gone bust. More than six years after a trio of Wall Street private equity firms bought out the former TXU Corp.

By: Steven Church, Tiffany Kary and Linda Sandler | Energy Future Holdings Corp., the Texas power company that plans to leave bankruptcy in less than a year, can’t reduce its $50 billion in debt without fighting junior creditors who face

By: DAVE SHEINGOLD | A proposal to raise electricity rates an average of 11.5 percent in 22 northern Bergen and Passaic county municipalities is scheduled to go before the public for comment on Wednesday in Mahwah. Two hearings, at 3:30

By: Michelle Sierra and Nick Brown | Energy Future Holdings is close to signing up at least $9.7 billion of bankruptcy loans from a consortium led by Citigroup and Deutsche Bank, according to two sources involved in the matter, allowing

By: Andrew Maykuth | FirstEnergy Solutions, facing an uproar in several states over its proposal to charge fixed-rate residential electricity customers a one-time fee of $5 to $15 to offset high winter costs, has decided to rethink that idea. “Even though

By: Nick Brown and Billy Cheung | Texas power company Energy Future Holdings is expected to file for bankruptcy as early as Monday evening, sources close to the situation said on Friday, as it struggles to pay its hefty debt

By: Charles Eaves | After his experience with retail electricity this winter, Columbia resident Charles Eaves said he’s back with his default supplier, PPL Electric Utilities. “Don’t shop,” he said. “Keep your default.” Many of his fellow Pennsylvanians are heeding that